Elizabeth Bishop
Poet
1911-02-08 – 1979-10-06
Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer known for precise, observant, and formally crafted verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956.
Books by Elizabeth Bishop
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![The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6699609-L.jpg)
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
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Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
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Poems
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Quotes by Elizabeth Bishop
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The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
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...what the Man-Moth fears most he must do..
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I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same,slightly, indifferently swinging above the stones,icily free above the stones,above the stones and then the world.If you should dip your hand in,your wrist would ache immediately,your bones would begin to ache and your hand would burnas if the water were a transmutation of firethat feeds on stones and burns with a dark gray flame.If you tasted it, it would first taste bitter,then briny, then surely burn your tongue.It is like what we imagine knowledge to be:dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free,drawn form the cold hard mouthof the world, derived from the rocky breastsforever, flowing and drawn, and sinceour knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.
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...what the Man-Moth fears most he must do..
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I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same,slightly, indifferently swinging above the stones,icily free above the stones,above the stones and then the world.If you should dip your hand in,your wrist would ache immediately,your bones would begin to ache and your hand would burnas if the water were a transmutation of firethat feeds on stones and burns with a dark gray flame.If you tasted it, it would first taste bitter,then briny, then surely burn your tongue.It is like what we imagine knowledge to be:dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free,drawn form the cold hard mouthof the world, derived from the rocky breastsforever, flowing and drawn, and sinceour knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.
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The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
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Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.
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